Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Every idle word - , a word that does nothing, that neither ministers grace nor instruction to them who hear it. The word corresponds to the Hebrew shave , which signifies not only vain or empty, but also wicked and injurious, such as a false testimony against a neighbor, compare Deuteronomy 5:11, Deuteronomy 5:20. Add to this, that Symmachus translates piggul , polluted, Leviticus 19:7, by the very Greek word in the text. It was to explain this ambiguous meaning of the word, that ten MSS. have changed into , evil. Our Lord must be understood here as condemning all false and injurious words: the scope of the place necessarily requires this meaning.
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